Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Descriptive text 1





  DESCRIPTIVE TEXT






Title: Reading text
Level: junior high school High School Grade XII
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you should be able to identify descriptive text and write your own descriptive text using your own words and topic


Well students welcome to the descriptive text practice.  As we know that reading is one of the skills that you have to mastered.  you might assumed that reading is the most boring one, but don't you worry everyone, because there are still ways to make our reading feels so funny. one of the ways is “come to this website, here you can find various topics of descriptive text. we also provides some exercise relating to the text given. After reading some passages, you will do some exercises More, you will write your own descriptive text using your own words and topic.


Descriptive text
Descriptive text is a text that usually used in writing to describe an object, it can be place, person, animal, and many more. Desriptive text is an english text that used to describe an object or living thing. We describe the object or living thing based on appearance, texture, voice, smell, etc. 

The communicative purpose of description text
The communicative purposes of descriptive text is describing and expressing ,telling the characteristics of an object, place, or certain living things generally without any research exhaustively and thoroughly.
















The characteristics of descriptive text based on langual appearance:

  1. Descriptive text uses present tense. for example go, eat, fly,etc.
  2. Descriptive text uses any kinds of adjectives  which describing, numbering., and classifying.for example: two strong legs, sharp white fangs,etc.
  3. Descriptive text uses relating verbs to give information aboout the subject.  e.g. my mom is reallty cool, she has vey thick fur, etc.
  4. Descriptive text uses thinking verbs,( such as believe, think, etc.) and feeling (such as feel) to express personal opinion of the writer about the object, for example: police believe the suspect is armed, i think it is a clever animal, etc.
  5. Descriptive text also uses adverbs(kata keterangan) to give the readers information about the attitude or characteristics of object that is describing. for example: it is extremely high, it runs definitely past, etc.

  WHILE READING ACTIVITY

MY SPHYNX CAT

Sphynx Cats

My Sphynx cat is the only pet I have. He has a little hair but is not totally hairless as he has a peach fuzz over much of his body. His coat is often a warm chamois. My Sphynx has a normal cat proportion.

I like his tail although my mom say that it is like a rats tail. I love his usual color varieties including, tortoiseshell, chocolate, black, blue, lilac, chocolate etc. He is really an amazing cat. Believe it or not, he is very intelligent cat. He can respond my voice commands.

He is really funny as well as my friends get a joke. I love him so much as I love my mother.


v  POST-READING ACTIVITY